[ARRL-OK] Re: Are you a real ham?

[D C (Mac) Macdonald]

I have put both sets of the "questions" together here.

73  ---  Mac, K2GKK/5



		You know you’re a ham if . . 


 1. You buy electrical black tape in ten packs.

 2. You’ve stripped wire with your teeth.

 3. You’ve told your son that "one day, all this will be
    yours" and he doesn’t respond.

 4. You’d rather help a buddy put up a new tower that mow
    the lawn.

 5. You’ve grabbed the wrong end of a soldering iron.

 6. You start giving out RST reports when your are on the
    telephone.

 7. The propagation forecast means far more to you than the
    local weather forecast.

 8. The microphone or visual aids at a meeting doen’t work
    and you rush up to the front to fix it.

 9. You tell the XYL, when she notices a new rig in the
    shack, ‘why that has been there for years.’

10. Your watch is set to UTC.

11. At night, when you pray, it starts off something like:
    CQ CQ CQ GOD DE (your callsign).

12. You ever had to patch your roof after an antenna
    project.

13. Ham radio magazines comprise more than 50% of your
    bathroom library.

14. You ever put a GPS tracker in the XYL’s car, just so you 
    could watch her on APRS.

15. You and the XYL took a cruise so you could visit the
    radio room.

16. Your ever tapped out HI in Morse on your car horn to
    another ham.

17. You ever had an antenna fall down.

18. Your teenager refuses to ride in your car because it
    looks like a porcupine.

19. You know the Latitude and Longitude of you home QTH.

20. You go into the local Radio Shack store and the clerk
    asks you where something it.

20. A baker's rack means more room for your toys.

21. You keep 100' of power cord in the trunk, just in case.

22. Your PC runs cooler because you removed the case cover
    last summer.

23. Your living room resembles the Smithsonian computer
    museum.

24. Your belt sags from all the stuff:  PDA, cellphone, HT,
    mini-toolkit, & etc.

25. You've called in sick to play with your radios all day.

26. You're a second generation (or more) recipient of a radio
    magazine collection.

27. Some of the fondest moments in your life were with your
    ham radio buddies.